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Marcello Gandini (born on August 26, 1938) is an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 car designer
Automotive design

Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles....
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Born in Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, after finishing school he received a job as the chief designer at Bertone
Bertone

Gruppo Bertone is an Italy car styling and coachbuilder house, which also manufactures cars. Bertone styling is very distinctive, with most cars having a strong "family resemblance" even if badged by different manufacturers....
. In 1980 he left to pursue a career as a freelance designer. He introduced the concept of scissor doors
Scissor doors

Scissor doors are doors that rotate vertically at a fixed hinge near the end of the windshield. They are often called beetle-wing doors, jack-knife doors, switchblade doors, and Lamborghini doors....
 with the Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo
Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo

The Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo was a concept car first shown in 1968 and designed by Marcello Gandini, working for the Bertone design studio. Carabo means beetle....
 prototype.








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Marcello Gandini (born on August 26, 1938) is an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 car designer
Automotive design

Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles....
.

Born in Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, after finishing school he received a job as the chief designer at Bertone
Bertone

Gruppo Bertone is an Italy car styling and coachbuilder house, which also manufactures cars. Bertone styling is very distinctive, with most cars having a strong "family resemblance" even if badged by different manufacturers....
. In 1980 he left to pursue a career as a freelance designer. He introduced the concept of scissor doors
Scissor doors

Scissor doors are doors that rotate vertically at a fixed hinge near the end of the windshield. They are often called beetle-wing doors, jack-knife doors, switchblade doors, and Lamborghini doors....
 with the Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo
Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo

The Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo was a concept car first shown in 1968 and designed by Marcello Gandini, working for the Bertone design studio. Carabo means beetle....
 prototype.

Cars designed

Gandini designed many classic automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
s, including, but not limited to:
  • Alfa Romeo Montreal
    Alfa Romeo Montreal

    The Alfa Romeo Montreal is a 2+2 coup? automobile produced by the Italy manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1970 to 1977....
  • Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo
    Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo

    The Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo was a concept car first shown in 1968 and designed by Marcello Gandini, working for the Bertone design studio. Carabo means beetle....
  • BMW 5 Series
    BMW 5 Series

    The BMW 5 Series is a mid-size car / executive car manufactured by BMW since 1972. The car, now in its fifth generation, is sold in sedan and station wagon body styles....
     - first generation BMW E12
  • Bugatti EB110
    Bugatti EB110

    The Bugatti EB110 was a Mid-engine design sports car from Bugatti#Bugatti Automobili SpA, the 1990s successor to one of the most celebrated marques in automotive history....
  • Citroën BX
    Citroën BX

    The Citro?n BX is a large family car that was produced by the French manufacturer Citro?n between 1983 and 1994. In total, 2,315,739 BXs were built during its 12-year history....
  • Cizeta Moroder V16T
  • De Tomaso Pantera
    De Tomaso Pantera

    The Pantera was a sports car produced by the De Tomaso car company of Italy from 1971 through 1991, the last one delivered to a customer in 1992....
     200
  • Ferrari Dino 308GT4
  • Fiat 132
  • Fiat X1/9
    Fiat X1/9

    The Fiat X1/9 is a two-seater mid-engined sports car designed by Bertone and built by Fiat until 1982 and Bertone between 1982 and 1989. Production lasted from 1972 to 1989 with the first official right-hand drive variant arriving in 1976....
  • Iso Lele
    Iso Lele

    Iso Lele was a sports coup? produced by the Italy automobile maker Iso Rivoltabetween 1969 and 1974. The Lele, being a 2+2 -seater, filled the gap between the Iso Grifo and the...
  • Lamborghini Countach
    Lamborghini Countach

    The Lamborghini Countach was a Mid-engine design sports car produced by Italian automaker Lamborghini from 1974 to 1989. Its design both pioneered and popularized the wedge-shaped, sharply angled look popular in many high performance sports cars....
  • Lamborghini Diablo
    Lamborghini Diablo

    The Lamborghini Diablo was a high-performance Mid-engine design sports car built by Italy automaker Lamborghini between 1990 and 2001, before it was replaced by the Lamborghini Murci?lago....
  • Lamborghini Espada
    Lamborghini Espada

    The Lamborghini Espada is a grand tourer which was built by Italy car manufacturer Lamborghini between 1968 and 1978.Based on the Lamborghini Marzal show car, displayed at the 1967 Geneva Auto Show, and the Bertone Pirana, a radically rebodied Jaguar E-type....
  • Lamborghini Jarama
    Lamborghini Jarama

    Lamborghini Jarama is a sports coup? which was built by Lamborghini between 1970 and 1976. It was designed by Bertone designer Marcello Gandini....
  • Lamborghini Miura
    Lamborghini Miura

    The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car built in Italy by Lamborghini between 1966 and 1972. A mid-engined layout had been used successfully in competition, including by the Ford GT40 and Ferrari 250 LM at 24 hours of Le Mans....
  • Lamborghini Urraco
    Lamborghini Urraco

    The Lamborghini Urraco was a sports car manufactured by Italy automaker Lamborghini in the 1970s. It was introduced at the Turin auto show in 1970 but wasn't available to buyers until 1973....
  • Lancia Stratos
    Lancia Stratos

    The Lancia Stratos HF, widely known as Lancia Stratos is an automobile made by Italy car manufacturer Lancia. The HF stands for High Fidelity....
  • Maserati Khamsin
    Maserati Khamsin

    The Maserati Khamsin was a sports car introduced as Bertone protype in 1972 Turin Motorshow, next year it was on display at Paris Motor Show badged as Maserati, production started from 1974....
  • Maserati Quattroporte
    Maserati Quattroporte

    The Maserati Quattroporte is a luxury four-door sedan made by Maserati of Italy. The name translated from Italian literally means "Wiktionary:quattro Wiktionary:porta#Italian"....
     IV (1994–2001)
  • Maserati Shamal
    Maserati Shamal

    The Maserati Shamal is a small, two-door coupe introduced by Italy automaker Maserati on December 17, 1989. It is named after shamal , a hot summer wind that blows in large areas of Mesopotamia....
  • Renault 5
    Renault 5

    The Renault 5 was a supermini car produced by the France automaker Renault in two generations between 1972 and 1996. It was sold in many markets, usually as the Renault 5 but in North America as Le Car from 1976 to 1986....
     Phase 2
  • De Tomaso
    De Tomaso

    De Tomaso Modena SpA is an Italyautomobile-manufacturing company. It was founded by the Argentina-born Alejandro de Tomaso in Modena in 1959....
     Biguŕ/Qvale Mangusta
    Qvale Mangusta

    The Qvale Mangusta is a sports car produced in limited numbers in Italy and finished in the United States by the automaker Qvale between 2000 and 2001....